Thicket Priory is a religious house in the civil parish of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, located about 7 miles (11.3 km) south east of York. It lies in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough.
A Benedictine priory for nuns stood on the site of Thicket Priory from the 1180s and was dissolved in 1539, its building being demolished in 1850. There is also evidence of a devotion to ‘Our Lady of Thicket’ dating from this time.
New monastic buildings were erected in the grounds of the former establishment, and these re-founded as a Carmelite monastery in 2009.
The building that was used by the community until 2009 was erected as a country house between 1844 and 1847, and was sold by Lt Col Sir John Dunnington-Jefferson in 1955 to the Carmelite Sisters of Exmouth. This group of buildings holds three Grade II listed buildings: the former Priory itself, its lodge, and coach house with stables and brewery,
The building is currently (April 2013) up for sale, with an asking price of £3,000,000.
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—Unknown. A Lament for the Priory of Walsingham (l. 39–44)